On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Brian Ristuccia wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:50:37PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > Remember that we're talking about fonts. In this case "use" > > entails reproducing the artistic contents of the font, that > > is, the lettershapes - so IMO use of a font must be considered > > form of copying. > Running a program involves copying it from disk into memory :) Yes, but the copy thus produced is not distributed, so I think the "fair use" argument is stronger in that case. > I recall a precedent here in the US where a document was not > infected by the copyright on the fonts used therein. It seemed > to say that so long as you've lawfully aquired a font, you're > free to use it when typesetting any documents you like. Well, I can't argue with that. But I'm happy for not being the judge who - in these days of digital typesetting - must decide when something is an alternative representation of a font and when it is just a document which happens to contain every letter in the alphabet and enough text to exhibit a selection of common kerning pairs... -- Henning Makholm
